Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security, ' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Pope Francis
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